You rescue an oppressed people, but your eyes are set against the proud – you humble them.
Isaiah 2:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For a day belonging to the Lord of Armies is coming against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up #– #it will be humbled – Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For there shall be a day of the Lord of hosts against all who are proud and haughty and against all who are lifted up–and they shall be brought low–[Zeph. 2:3; Mal. 4:1.] American Standard Version (1901) For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; Common English Bible The LORD of heavenly forces has planned a day: against all that is prideful and haughty; against all that is lofty, and it will be laid low; Catholic Public Domain Version For the day of the Lord of hosts will prevail over all the proud and self-exalted, and over all the arrogant, and each one shall be humbled, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant: and he shall be humbled. |
You rescue an oppressed people, but your eyes are set against the proud – you humble them.
Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgement? Why do those who know him never see his days?
Everyone with a proud heart is detestable to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
But when the Lord finishes all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, ‘I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.’
Look, the Lord God of Armies will chop off the branches with terrifying power, and the tall trees will be cut down, the high trees felled.
I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their iniquities. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
Wail! For the day of the Lord is near. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Look, the day of the Lord is coming – cruel, with fury and burning anger – to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners.
But you will be brought down to Sheol into the deepest regions of the Pit.
The Lord of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honoured ones of the earth.
On that day the Lord will punish the army of the heights in the heights and the kings of the ground on the ground.
The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.
He reduces princes to nothing and makes judges of the earth like a wasteland.
I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up marshes.
Humanity is brought low, each person is humbled, and haughty eyes are humbled.
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour, and the day of our God’s vengeance; to comfort all who mourn,
Is my inheritance like a hyena to me? Are birds of prey circling her? Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour her.
‘This is what the Lord says: Just like this I will ruin the great pride of both Judah and Jerusalem.
How awful that day will be! There will be no other like it! It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.
That day belongs to the Lord, the God of Armies, a day of vengeance to avenge himself against his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satisfied; it will drink its fill of their blood, because it will be a sacrifice to the Lord, the God of Armies, in the northern land by the River Euphrates.
Look, I am against you, you arrogant one – this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies – for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall round the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! What will the day of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
Therefore, the Lord says: I am now planning a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time.
I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your fortresses.
a day of ram’s horn and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
On that day you will not be put to shame because of everything you have done in rebelling against me. For then I will remove from among you your jubilant, arrogant people, and you will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.
‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.
Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’
hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. ,